iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ryan @projectpixel.net · 03/10/2026

@doctorow.pluralistic.net is still the only person who is saying what I'm thinking. Generally discussion or reporting on LLMs is fundamentally flawed in the same way. Parroting the core bullshit, then earnestly attempting to build a dialogue on that.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least

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dame @dame.is · 02/10/2026

Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They can’t “cut”, “copy”, or “paste” anything, because they don’t have scissors and glue.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the best questions we can all ask these days is, “How?” It’s simple and smart and a non-answer tells you as much as an answer. Skynet is going to kill is? How? We are moving to the moon? How? Build a big net around earth? How??

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, we announced that HASTAC is closing as an interactive social network after 25+ years of innovative, exciting, and equitable learning, scholarship, and community focusing on technology and its impact on society. educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/09/29/s...

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Sunsetting the HASTAC Network After 25+ Great Years: Farewell and Appreciation From HASTAC Co-Directors Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley – Educational and Cultural Institutions

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I agree! I don’t buy the hype on AGI or whether it’s intelligence, reasoning, or whatever. That’s anthropomorphic discourse that muddies the waters. But I do get value from iterative interactions with these AI systems, which consistently produce useful results for my (mostly coding) needs.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Opinion-havers! Historicists! Nerd friends! Leftists! All/none of the above! Submit a proposal to GENERATIVE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, a new volume on AI and DH to be edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @zentralwerkstatt.org and me! Deadline 11/1. Please share!

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Walt “FML” Whitman @whitmanfml.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I briefed a developer to delete 57 email accounts. I sent the wrong screenshots; the cylinder press, the handpress, the frisket and tympan, the compositor's stick and rule.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whenever I see news of some new AI detection so-called breakthrough, I’m immediately skeptical, and, even if it seems to actually work, I wonder “For how long?” As far as I’m concerned, AI detection is a dangerous distraction that further supports the AI industry.

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a sensible, pragmatic framework from a group of very smart and well informed people brought together by the MLA to offer field-level guidance. mlaai.hcommons.org/pedagogy-wor... Tags: #AI #pedagogy #assessment #MLA

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MLA Framework for AI-Resilient Assessment and Grading: Designing for Motivation and Validity – MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"It does not matter if a literary text is written by a human or computer because a text is neither a conversation nor a connection. It is a catalyst for connection." Leah Henrickson's provocation on the romanticized connection between readers and authors is 🔥. read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-toda...

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’d be a Jedi master at the academy teaching younglings about the ancient lost art of writing— ever see anyone reading in Star Wars?—while building holographic literacy and arguing with other Jedi scholars about the importance of talking to droids and how they really do have artificial intelligence.

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a lovely post that captures what I love about the kinds of problems electronic literature and the digital humanities have dealt with for decades. And I love what AI can do for these fields. The least interesting part of generative AI can do is generate text, unless that text is code.

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In the electronic literature (#elit) community, we have been working with and thinking through computer-generated writing and natural language generation (NLG) for decades. This essay builds on our research and collective insights on to show ways to transcend binaries on human vs machine writing.

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My essay “Authenticity in Computational Writing: Reflections ona Creative Coding Practice” was just published in The Bilingual Review. Check it out and learn about my creative and critical work and how to create authentic work with #AI. bilingualreviewjournal.org/index.php/br... Tags: #elit #DH

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Authenticity in Computational Writing: Reflections on a Creative Coding Practice | Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe

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Authenticity in Computational Writing: Reflections on a Creative Coding Practice | Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Deathslop would make a great name for a metal band! Here’s my proposed (AI-generated) cover art. #deathslop

AI generated album cover for a fictional band called Deathslop. Album title: “Putrescent slop”
Featured song titles: “content swamp” and “The Stench of Training data”.

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Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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A grayscale illustration of a 3.5-inch floppy disk. In June 1992 an urban legend began circulating that such disks were edible if you peeled them first. There was a rash of hospitalizations that summer, office workers rushed to the ER with perforated stomachs caused by the metal shutter of a floppy disk. OSHA investigators eventually traced the source of the urban legend to a temp named Samantha who had recently been fired from an ad firm in town. The investigation stalled when it was discovered that Samantha’s last name, Social Security number, and home address were all made up. As far as OSHA could tell, Samantha didn’t exist.

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The more I read about how AI empowered propaganda by the Russian government and other bad actors (some of whom are running this country) is being used to influence elections, and other mischief, the more I think we need to increase our engagement with and exposure to these technologies.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is an example of why being granular about “AI” is important. The cited study from 2021 uses machine learning. Problems of training data/bias are real, as is automation bias, but this isn’t “ChatGPT, does my patient have schizophrenia?” Knowing the difference and potential implications matters.

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love reveal.js for its portability and ease of embedding websites into a slide deck. But I don't always want to work in markdown. So I made Small Reveal, a lightweight, browser-based WYSIWYG editor for reveal.js. Demo: slides.samplereality.com

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Small Reveal

Build reveal.js presentations in your browser. No build step, no backend, no account — your decks live in your own browser storage.

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s ZERO chance AI is an existential threat to humanity. I’d bet my life on it.

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Schrödinger wakes up, groggy, no memory of the last few hours, unsure of his surroundings. He seems to be confined inside some kind of box. There is a strange mechanism at one end. His pulses quickens; from outside he hears a cat purring.

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Walt “FML” Whitman @whitmanfml.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I do not snivel that snivel the world over, and I was making a nacho and grabbed some refried beans that were in a plastic container out of the fridge and put them on top of the chips.

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The map's form: dance It shows: where things happened Its purpose: to advise

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Would be great to stop having this debate and instead really dig into what should go in the curriculum, with or without AI, so that we can meet this moment in a way other than trying to hang on to the idea that embracing or not embracing is the question. /4

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I've said this before but the point to me of data center opposition is not limited to "we oppose this forever" but for communities to bring pressure on companies and public officials to extract concessions and otherwise get what they want

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

MIT offers sensible guidance on AI in Education in this report: aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ And it’s a readable, straightforward set of recommendations that are well attuned to the guidance published by the MLA. www.mla.org/Resources/Gu...

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Report – AI and Education

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The live recording for the MLA Webinar: "AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship" is now live. leonardoflores.net/posts/blog/p... Relevant tags: #AI #LLM #humanities #english #language #literature #research #scholarship #DH #digitalhumanities

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Webinar: AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship

Leader, Scholar, Educator, Creator.

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm happy to share the recording of an MLA Webinar in which we discussed "AI and the Humanities: a Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship" prepared by the MLA AI in Research Working Group. www.mla.org/Events/Webin...

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AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary...

Published by the AI and Research Working Group of the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching, AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship is designed to help the pr...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

"Disruptors" are best when they move value from existing companies to those companies' customers. The first TV remotes let people change the channel when an ad came on, making their TV better at broadcasters' expense. 22/

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

a few general observations from a week that has included a lot of getting yelled at: 1) many to most people still think of AI as chatbots. Chatbots are at this point useful but they are imo perhaps an order of magnitude less useful than agentic AI.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

5) there are a bunch of reasonable objections to AI but most people who object to AI, at least the ones in my mentions, dislike AI first and then find objections later. The water thing has always been bullshit. The psychosis thing looked like it was going to be a huge problem and then it wasn’t.

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

3 days left—4 if you count the full day of August 17– to submit your tiny computational poems to Taper #17. #elit #DH

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Attention #elit & #DH communities, digital poets, and creative coders! There are 10 days left until the open call for Taper #17: Prime closes (August 17, AoE - Anywhere on Earth). Here's a link to the call: taper.badquar.to/16/about.htm... Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

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About Taper #16

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’m officially coining the term menu poetry (#menupoetry) to refer to how menus (which already have a high poetic function) and food ordering create powerful poetic moments. I will now read this out loud to a Chipotle employee. And huge credit to my son Blake, for triggering this insight.

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I love the term "folk forensics"—and indeed, many cloying tells of AI use—like lists of threes, words deemed statistically likely to be LLM output, and em dashes—are mere superficialities. Not only that, they distract us from the underlying logic of textual production in the 21st century.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Raise your hand if you look forward to a cultural future that consists of policing every artist, performer, entertainer, or author whom you love and admire for the slightest whiff of “AI,” defined by vibes and whatever set of folk forensics is currently in circulation.

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Walt “FML” Whitman @whitmanfml.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was joking to mom that at the rate I’m going I’ll have to start an OnlyFans to afford college next year. She shrugged like it was nothing because this man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

A carny barker waving his top-hat and selling tickets from a roll; his head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a magnified, halftoned detail from a US$100 bill.

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Taco Hell Menu @tacohellmenu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This month only, the triple bean Cheetos Mexican pizza locos returns to Taco Hell! Rush to a Taco Hell near you!

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